Taft College Academic Senate Council Minutes
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Cafeteria Conference Room
Members Present: President Geoffrey Dyer, Vice President Vicki Jacobi, Mike Jiles, Tony Thompson, Kanoe Bandy, Kelly Kulzer-Reyes, Greg Golling, Tori Furman, Juana Escobedo,
Guests: Antonio Alfaro
The meeting was called to order at 12:00 p.m.
Public Commentary
Action Items
Approval of Minutes of October 17, 2018 meeting
- No changes, minutes adopted by unanimous consent.
Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Steering Committee Charter
- Vicki Jacobi presented the minor corrections to the charter made for consistency of language. Headings were also added for accessibility.
- The Student Learning outcomes Assessment Steering Committee Charter moves forward to Senate of the Whole by unanimous consent.
Distance Education Committee Charter
- Membership changes to the charter include making the Director of Distance Education a non-voting member, adding a faculty co-chair, remove the limit of number of faculty representatives, changing advisor to counselor, defining quorum as simple majority, and using Robert’s Rules of Order.
- The Distance Education Committee Charter moves forward to Senate of the Whole by unanimous consent.
Business Faculty Replacement
- Kanoe Bandy is looking for the Senate’s support for replacement of Adam Bledsoe. The need is in Business, Economics, and Management. She also shared a concern for adjunct availability until the position is replaced.
- There is been growth in this area in part due to the services to incarcerated students.
- Geoffrey Dyer referred to past practice of recommending faculty replacement positions.
- On a motion by Tony Thompson, seconded by Greg Golling, the Business faculty replacement was approved to move forward to Senate-of-the-Whole.
California Academic Partnership Program Grant
- The CAPP Implementation Grant is due in January.
- Committee members include: Vicki Jacobi, Juana Rangel-Escobedo, Lori Sundgren, and Tammy Sutherland.
- Ideas for activities have been discussed such as a summer data summit with faculty from both TC and TUHS, on-boarding of disproportionately impacted students, use of Success Navigator, and parent orientations.
- Vicki Jacobi will provide an update during the January in-service meeting.
- On a motion by Kanoe Bandy, seconded by Mike Jiles, the California Academic Partnership Program Implementation Grant was approved to move forward to Senate of the Whole.
AB 705: Placement, High School GPA, and High School Coursework
- Consider the impaction prerequisites may impact other disciplines.
- Fall 2018 ASCCC Resolutions 8.01: Using Multiple Measures in addition to High School Grade Point Average for Student Assessment and Placement Practices and Resolution 18.01: Guided Self-Placement were reviewed.
- Taft College already has a Guided Self-Placement webpage that is live to the public/students.
- It is important to have conversations with discipline faculty and counselors and may be most appropriate for Academic Development Committee and/or Student Success Committee and/or Access Committee to work on Guided Self-Placement.
- Lori Sundgren will put Guided Self-Placement on the Academic Development Committee agenda as the work is consistent with the committee’s charter.
- Geoffrey Dyer will put the Guided Self-Placement website update on the agenda as an informational item for next Senate-of-the-Whole.
Assigning Courses to Disciplines
- Vicki Jacobi suggests that course assignments to disciplines be made during the curriculum process at the Curriculum meeting.
Information/Discussion Items
ASCCC Visit: January 17, 1-3pm
Faculty Position Request Ranking: January In-Service Senate-of-the-Whole meeting
Other/Open Forum for Announcements
- The FON report indicates 58.7 full-time faculty and currently there are 60 full-time faculty.
The meeting adjourned at 1:05 p.m.
Recorded notes provided by Juana Rangel-Escobedo
Submitted by Candace Duron, Secretary
